Join us

Join and learn skills for life. We have four sections – Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers. Meetings are normally held in Barton St David Village Hall with outdoor activities often at Orchard Park Farm, Hornblotton.

Why Join? (youngsters).

Sign up by going to the Join Us tab and clicking on Child Joining in the drop down menu

  1. Try over 200 activities – From archery and acting to street sports and zorbing, being a member of the Scouting Movement gives you the chance to get stuck into loads of activities you wouldn’t normally get to do.
  2. Make new friends – Joining Scouting is a chance to meet up with your friends, have a laugh and do lots of exciting activities. You’ll meet adventurous people just like you who want to do something a little different.
  3. Have fun – Chief Scout Bear Grylls says life is about grabbing opportunities! We agree! Above everything else, Scouting is all about enjoying yourself, whatever you’re doing – and there’ll always be plenty to do!
  4. Get outdoors – As a member of the Scouting Movement, you get to explore the big outdoors and travel to new places and try new things. Sounds better than being stuck in the house with nothing to do, right?
  5. Learn exciting things – Not many people know about the stars at night, how to sail a dinghy or make a sausage stew on a campfire, but you soon will! Scouting helps you learn lots of new and amazing skills – and you get to earn badges and rewards along the way
  6. Amazing but true…… *
    • 11 of the 12 people to walk on the moon were Scouts.
    • Scouts have stood on the summit of Everest and at the South Pole.
    • Scouts are public spirited – all our leaders are volunteers and nearly half (47%) volunteer outside of Scouting too.
    • Over 160,000 adult volunteers in Scouting learn new skills, make new friends and make a positive impact in their communities.
    • Over a quarter of UK Scouting’s membership is female.
    • Scouting offers hundreds of different volunteer roles from management positions to behind the scenes roles like driving the minibus or painting and decorating
    • 1 person began Scouting in 1907; today 640,000 Scouts now take part in the UK and 40 million around the world.
    • What have Barack Obama, David Beckham, Paul McCartney, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, Richard Branson and Jamie Oliver all got in common? They were (or are) all Scouts.
    • In 2018, Scouts set a new Guinness World Record for the largest human fleur de lis made up of 455 people at CarFest North with Scout Amba.

*References for these can be found here.

Why join? (adults)

Apart from the satisfaction of getting involved, it is also great fun and as an adult in scouting you also get the chance to participate in many of our scouting activities for free! If you are interested in becoming an adult volunteer with us then please get in touch via the contact form.